Helene Cooper

Diplomatic Correspondent
The New York Times

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Helene Cooper was named the Diplomatic Correspondent for the New York Times in June 2006, after working for two years as the assistant editor of the Times' editorial page. Ms. Cooper was previously the assistant bureau chief of the Wall Street Journal's Washington Bureau, overseeing a group of reporters focusing on international economics and foreign policy. From 1999 to 2002, she was the Wall Street Journal's international economics reporter, and before that she covered economics out of the Journal's London bureau. A native of Monrovia, Liberia, Ms. Cooper will publish a memoir, The House at Sugar Beach, next fall.

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